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From: Jason S on 23 Jul 2010 23:34 On 2010-07-23 15:20:52 -0400, Bobby Johnson said: > If you are running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit I would guess the > game/program is not compatible. In fact it sounds as though it will > not run on any NT system. You can download VMware Player version 3.1, > which is a FREE program, and install Win98 in a Virtual Machine. > > If it was published in 1995 it may have been compiled as an 8-bit > program for Win 3 and/or DOS. If it is 8-bit it will absolutely not > run on any NT based OS. > > > On 2010-07-23 11:53, Jason S wrote: >> On 2010-07-23 07:32:26 -0400, Bobby Johnson said: >> >>> And how is all this related to a 64-bit OS? >>> >>> This is a 64-bit OS group, not a 32-bit OS group. >>> >>> >>> On 2010-07-22 18:44, Jason S wrote: >>>> Hello all. I'm having some trouble with a game running on NT-based >>>> windows OS's. It keeps throwing a general protection fault from a DLL. >>>> Is there any way to solve this issue so the game will run on modern >>>> windows OS's? I can get the game to run on Windows 98SE. So far I've >>>> failed to get it to run on Windows XP Pro and Windows 7 Pro. I'm >>>> currently trying to get a copy of Windows 2000 and Windows ME so I can >>>> try it with those two systems. >>>> >>>> Compatibility mode failed. I can't figure out if there's a way to get it >>>> to work or if it can even work at all. If it helps, the game is Greg >>>> Norman Ultimate Challenge Golf (1995). >> >> Must have forgot to mention that Windows 7 is running on an x64 system. Definitely not 8-bit... It was pretty advanced at the time (3-D animation with real images and graphics... Probably 16-bit). I'm setting up a Windows 98 box that I'll use for now. Just going to experiment for now, maybe even use my Windows 3.1 floppies if I can find them :) -- Jason
From: Bob I on 26 Jul 2010 08:49
Jason S wrote: > On 2010-07-23 15:20:52 -0400, Bobby Johnson said: > >> If you are running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit I would guess the >> game/program is not compatible. In fact it sounds as though it will >> not run on any NT system. You can download VMware Player version 3.1, >> which is a FREE program, and install Win98 in a Virtual Machine. >> >> If it was published in 1995 it may have been compiled as an 8-bit >> program for Win 3 and/or DOS. If it is 8-bit it will absolutely not >> run on any NT based OS. >> >> >> On 2010-07-23 11:53, Jason S wrote: >> >>> On 2010-07-23 07:32:26 -0400, Bobby Johnson said: >>> >>>> And how is all this related to a 64-bit OS? >>>> >>>> This is a 64-bit OS group, not a 32-bit OS group. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2010-07-22 18:44, Jason S wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello all. I'm having some trouble with a game running on NT-based >>>>> windows OS's. It keeps throwing a general protection fault from a DLL. >>>>> Is there any way to solve this issue so the game will run on modern >>>>> windows OS's? I can get the game to run on Windows 98SE. So far I've >>>>> failed to get it to run on Windows XP Pro and Windows 7 Pro. I'm >>>>> currently trying to get a copy of Windows 2000 and Windows ME so I can >>>>> try it with those two systems. >>>>> >>>>> Compatibility mode failed. I can't figure out if there's a way to >>>>> get it >>>>> to work or if it can even work at all. If it helps, the game is Greg >>>>> Norman Ultimate Challenge Golf (1995). >>> >>> >>> Must have forgot to mention that Windows 7 is running on an x64 system. > > > Definitely not 8-bit... It was pretty advanced at the time (3-D > animation with real images and graphics... Probably 16-bit). I'm setting > up a Windows 98 box that I'll use for now. Just going to experiment for > now, maybe even use my Windows 3.1 floppies if I can find them :) Most likely in order to provide those "pretty advanced" images and graphics the software was manipulating the hardware directly. That is a no-no in NT. You may get it to work in a VM box, but you won't get some program like that to fly directly in NT. |